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Upcoming Events
FYE 2100 2024 presentations:
- “Decision Making and Embracing Shades of Gray,” Toni Woolfork Barnes (Director of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) and Ollie Woolfork Barnes
- “What You Do Matters,” Evan Heiser, Director of WMU Career and Employment Service
The Illusion of Inclusion, Provost Julien Heilig-Vasquez
"Urban Dead Seas,” Dr. Carla Koretsky, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
- Rich McMullen, Director of Exploratory Advising
Western Michigan graduate students bring philosophy class into state prison
KALAMAZOO, MI -- Chad Watson is unlike other Western Michigan University graduate students who teach while pursuing their degree. His classroom is behind a razor-wire fence, and his students are inmates of a state prison. Watson is one of two graduate students at Western Michigan University working to build the Prison Education Outreach Program to educate inmates at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.
OLLI at Western Michigan University Reader's Theater
One of the OLLI at WMU courses is Senior Readers Theater in which members perform plays in the community and then hold a 30-minute talk back with the audience. This tried-and-true experience had been a great success but was taken to a new level this past August when OLLI became aware of several incarcerated people at the Lakeland Correctional Facility who were also studying theater and acting parts in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. These 22 men, ranging in age from 20 to 70, had been selected from a rigorous admissions process to attend WMU classes within the facility and work toward bachelor’s degrees.